1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump

These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 39 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Tuesday August 5, 1997.

Medalists

Gold	Iván Pedroso Cuba (CUB)
Silver	Erick Walder United States (USA)
Bronze	Kirill Sosunov Russia (RUS)

Qualifying round

• Held on Sunday 1997-08-03

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Maurice Wignall (JAM)	8.09 m
2.	Erick Walder (USA)	8.05 m
3.	Nelson Ferreira (BRA)	8.00 m
4.	Lao Jianfeng (CHN)	7.99 m
5.	Bogdan Tudor (ROM)	7.98 m
6.	Kirill Sosunov (RUS)	7.96 m
7.	Masaki Morinaga (JPN)	7.93 m
8.	Carlos Calado (POR)	7.92 m
9.	Olexiy Lukashevych (UKR)	7.90 m
10.	Konstantinos Koukodimos (GRE)	7.87 m
11.	Tomas Bardauskas (LTU)	7.75 m
12.	Grzegorz Marciniszyn (POL)	7.69 m
13.	Raúl Fernández (ESP)	7.62 m
14.	Elston Shaw (BLZ)	7.21 m
15.	Victor Shabangu (SWZ)	7.18 m
16.	Richard Duncan (CAN)	7.17 m
17.	Joe Greene (USA)	7.15 m
—	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	NM
	Kader Klouchi (FRA)

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.11 m
2.	Cheikh Tidiane Touré (SEN)	8.09 m
3.	James Beckford (JAM)	8.03 m
4.	Kevin Dilworth (USA)	7.96 m
5.	Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR)	7.94 m
6.	Emmanuel Bangué (FRA)	7.93 m
7.	Tan Zhengze (CHN)	7.92 m
8.	Nobuharu Asahara (JPN)	7.88 m
9.	Bogdan Tarus (ROM)	7.87 m
10.	Mattias Sunneborn (SWE)	7.72 m
11.	Marko Rajić (YUG)	7.70 m
12.	Younes Moudrik (MAR)	7.66 m
13.	Robert Emmiyan (ARM)	7.65 m
14.	Andrey Ignatov (RUS)	7.64 m
15.	Dimitris Filindras (GRE)	7.63 m
16.	Hee-Jun SUNG (KOR)	7.63 m
17.	Keita Cline (IVB)	7.23 m
18.	Hui-Fang Nai (TPE)	7.05 m
—	Dimitrios Chatzopoulos (GRE)	NM
	Krzysztof Łuczak (POL)

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.42	X	X	X	X	7.60	8.42 m	SB
	Erick Walder (USA)	8.29	8.15	8.29	8.36	8.30	8.38	8.38 m	SB
	Kirill Sosunov (RUS)	8.04	7.89	8.05	8.12	7.83	8.18	8.18 m	SB
4	James Beckford (JAM)	X	8.07	7.92	8.14	6.62	7.85	8.14 m	SB
5	Nelson Ferreira (BRA)	7.97	X	8.04	X	6.63	X	8.04 m	SB
6	Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR)	7.98	6.99	7.90	8.03	X	X	8.03 m	SB
7	Cheikh Tidiane Touré (SEN)	7.81	7.98	7.92	7.98	7.98	7.91	7.98 m
8	Kevin Dilworth (USA)	7.88	X	X	X	X	X	7.88 m
9	Masaki Morinaga (JPN)	7.70	7.72	7.86				7.86 m
10	Lao Jianfeng (CHN)	7.76	X	7.59				7.76 m
11	Bogdan Tudor (ROM)	7.66	7.51	7.65				7.66 m
—	Maurice Wignall (JAM)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• 1994 Men's European Championships Long Jump
• 1996 Men's Olympic Long Jump
• 1997 Long Jump Year Ranking
• 1998 Men's European Championships Long Jump

References

• Results